LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 601 



Cymatophora RUFICOLLIS. 

 ruficollis, Cat. Lep. Het. ix. 13. 

 «. Hungary. From M. H.-Schaeffer's collection. 



Cymatophora viridescens. 



Mas. Viridis ; antennce fulvce, pectinatce ; thoracis tegulce nigro 

 albidoque marginatce ; alee anticce nigro conspersce, orbiculari 

 reniformi maculaque postica albidis magnis nigro submar- 

 ginatis, fascia exteriore albida interrupta, punctis marginali- 

 bus nigris ; posticce sordide cinerea. 



Male. Greea, cinereous beneath. Proboscis slender. Palpi 

 porrect, pilose, not extending beyond the head. Antennae tawny, 

 moderately pectinated. Tegulae of the thorax bordered with black 

 and with whitish. Abdomen cinereous, extending rather beyond 

 the hind wings. Fore wings black-speckled ; orbicular and reni- 

 form marks large, whitish, partly black-bordered ; an exterior 

 whitish band interrupted near the interior angle by a broad green 

 streak, which contains two little black lines; two black lines, one 

 extending from the base, the other angular and proceeding from the 

 costa, both joining a whitish black-bordered spot, which is behind 

 the orbicular ; marginal points black. Hind wings dingy cine- 

 reous ; veins blackish towards the exterior border ; under side with 

 a black spot in the disk and an exterior blackish denticulate line. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



This species has some resemblance to C. ridens y but is most 

 allied to C. caniplaga, and with it may form a new genus. 



a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Cymatophora aspera. 



Cinerea ; palpi porrecti, pilosis caput superantes, articulo So parvo; 

 alee anticm nigricante conspersa^-, fasciis duabus ferrugineis, 

 la obliqua, 2a marginali lineam submarginalem cineream 

 denticulatam includente, striga basali longitudinali lineisque 

 duabus denticulatis nigricantibus ; posticce linea fusca den- 

 tata. 



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